Terms & Conditions
The provisions recorded below govern the manner in which visitors may access, read, share and otherwise make use of the editorial material published across Jackpot City Casino, an independent gambling information and affiliate publication produced for readers in New Zealand. They describe what we undertake to provide, what we expressly do not undertake, and the responsibilities that rest with every person who opens a page on this domain.
We are not a gaming operator. Our platform accepts no stakes, holds no player balances, issues no bonuses and supplies no gaming software of any description. Everything published here is comparative journalism and consumer guidance about brands that operate under overseas licences. Because that distinction shapes almost every clause that follows, we ask that you read this document in full before relying on our reviews, ratings, bonus summaries or payment guides.
Acknowledgement and Formation of a Binding Arrangement
Opening any page on this website, subscribing to our newsletter, submitting a comment or following a promotional link constitutes your acceptance of these provisions in their entirety. Acceptance occurs through conduct rather than signature, which is a well-established principle of contract formation in New Zealand; no separate confirmation, tick-box or registration step is required for this agreement to take effect between you and us.
Should any part of this document be unacceptable to you — whether the exclusions of liability, the treatment of commercial partnerships, or the governing law provisions — the appropriate course is to discontinue use of the platform immediately. Continued browsing after you have become aware of a clause you object to will be treated as unqualified assent to the whole of it, and we will be entitled to rely upon that assent.
These provisions operate alongside any additional notices, disclaimers or supplementary conditions attached to particular sections of the site. Where a page-specific notice conflicts with the general wording set out here, the page-specific notice prevails for that page alone, and the balance of this agreement continues to apply without modification.
Age Thresholds, Residency and Eligibility to Browse
Our content is prepared exclusively for adults. By remaining on the platform you warrant that you have attained at least eighteen years of age and that you possess the legal capacity to enter into a binding arrangement of this nature. We do not knowingly direct promotional material toward minors, and any account, comment or subscription traced to a person below the stated threshold will be removed without notice or correspondence.
Readers should be conscious that statutory age limits differ according to the gambling product concerned. Under the framework created by the Gambling Act 2003, available through the official New Zealand legislation database, entry to a licensed land-based casino in this country is restricted to persons aged twenty and over, while participation in lotteries and totalisator products is generally permitted from eighteen. Offshore online operators set their own minimum age in accordance with the rules of their licensing authority.
New Zealand does not license domestically operated online casinos, yet residents are not prohibited from participating in gambling offered by websites established outside the country. Our editorial coverage is framed around that reality. It remains your personal responsibility to confirm that your participation is lawful in the territory in which you are physically located at the time you place a wager, particularly if you are travelling or resident abroad.
Before proceeding beyond this page, please satisfy yourself that each of the following statements is accurate:
- you are of legal age in your jurisdiction of residence and of physical presence;
- no court order, self-exclusion arrangement or operator restriction prevents you from engaging with gambling material;
- you are accessing our pages for personal, non-commercial purposes;
- you accept that any decision to register with a third-party operator is taken on your own initiative and at your own risk.
What Our Editorial Material Is, and What It Is Not
Every article, comparison table, ranking and tutorial published here is offered for general informational and entertainment purposes. Nothing on this domain should be construed as legal advice, taxation advice, financial planning guidance or a recommendation that any particular person should gamble. Our writers assess brands against publicly available criteria; they do not assess your circumstances, your disposable income or your tolerance for loss.
Gambling markets move quickly. Bonus percentages are revised, wagering multipliers change, payment providers are withdrawn from certain regions, and titles are removed from lobbies at the discretion of the studios that supply them. Although our team verifies details at the time of publication and revisits high-traffic guides on a scheduled basis, we cannot warrant that any figure remains current at the moment you read it. The operator’s own terms are always the controlling document.
Reader-submitted material — including comments, ratings and correspondence reproduced with permission — reflects the views of the individuals concerned and not our editorial position. We reserve an unqualified discretion to moderate, edit or decline to publish such submissions, and we accept no responsibility for opinions expressed by contributors or by any commercial partner quoted within our pages.
Commercial Partnerships, Referral Fees and Editorial Independence
We generate revenue through affiliate marketing. When a reader follows a tracked link and subsequently registers or deposits with an operator, we may receive a commission, a fixed acquisition fee or a share of net revenue. That commercial arrangement never increases the cost to you, never alters the promotional offer you receive, and never entitles a partner to dictate the wording of a review or the position of a brand within a ranking table.
This disclosure is made in the spirit of the Fair Trading Act 1986, which prohibits misleading or deceptive conduct in trade. Rather than burying a notice in a footer, we set out below the categories of material we publish and the commercial relationship, if any, that typically sits behind each of them.
| Category of published material | Usual commercial relationship | Effect on our editorial assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Operator reviews and brand ratings | Referral commission on qualifying sign-ups | None; scoring follows a fixed internal rubric |
| Bonus and promotional listings | Tracked links supplied by the operator | Terms are summarised from the operator’s own conditions |
| Slot and game reviews | Ordinarily no commercial link with the studio | Based on published return-to-player and volatility data |
| Banking and payment method guides | Occasional sponsored placement, always labelled | Processing times and fees stated as advertised |
| Strategy articles and responsible play resources | No commercial relationship | Prepared independently by our editorial team |
Where a page carries sponsored placement, that fact is identified on the page itself. If you ever encounter material that appears to you commercially influenced without adequate labelling, we invite you to raise it with our editorial desk so the entry can be reviewed and, where necessary, corrected.
Ownership of the Material Published on This Domain
Copyright and all associated intellectual property rights in the text, layout, comparison tables, scoring methodology, graphics and compiled data appearing on this platform vest in us or in our licensors, and are protected by the Copyright Act 1994 together with applicable international conventions. Trade marks, logos and brand names belonging to gambling operators or software studios remain the property of their respective owners and appear here purely for identification and descriptive purposes.
Limited use is permitted without prior written consent, provided it is genuinely non-commercial and does not misrepresent the source. Specifically, you may:
- view and temporarily cache pages in the ordinary course of browsing;
- print or download individual articles for personal reference;
- quote short extracts in commentary or research, accompanied by clear attribution and a live link to the original page.
Conduct That Is Not Permitted on Our Platform
Access is granted on the understanding that you will not interfere with the integrity, security or availability of the service. Automated harvesting, scraping of our comparison data for republication, systematic downloading, framing of our pages within another site, or any attempt to reverse-engineer the structure of our rankings falls outside the permission granted above and may amount to an offence under the Crimes Act 1961 as well as a breach of this agreement.
In addition, and without limiting the generality of the preceding paragraph, the following are expressly prohibited:
- transmitting malicious code, launching denial-of-service attempts or probing our infrastructure for vulnerabilities;
- posting defamatory, harassing, discriminatory or unlawful commentary in any interactive area;
- impersonating our staff, a licensed operator or any regulatory body;
- circumventing geographical restrictions in order to represent yourself as eligible where you are not;
- using our contact channels to distribute unsolicited commercial messages.
We may suspend or permanently withdraw access, remove submitted content and take such further steps as are available to us at law where we form a reasonable belief that a prohibition has been breached. Nothing in this clause obliges us to monitor user activity, and our decision not to act in one instance shall not be treated as a waiver of our right to act in another.
Links Leading Away From Our Pages
Our reviews necessarily direct readers to gambling operators, payment providers, software studios and support agencies whose websites we neither own nor administer. Once you leave this domain, the destination site’s own terms, privacy notice and cookie settings govern the relationship between you and that party, and our agreement with you ceases to have any application to that environment.
We take reasonable steps to link only to established brands, but inclusion of a hyperlink is not a warranty of solvency, licensing status, payout reliability or fair play. Operators change ownership, migrate between licensing regimes and occasionally cease trading with limited warning. Before depositing funds you should independently examine the operator’s licence details, complaints history, withdrawal conditions and identity-verification requirements.
Any dispute concerning a bonus refusal, a delayed withdrawal, a closed account or an alleged malfunction must be pursued directly with the operator concerned, and thereafter with whichever alternative dispute resolution body that operator’s licence prescribes. We have no authority to compel a third party to release funds, reverse a decision or reinstate an account, and we do not act as an intermediary in such matters.
Playing Within Limits: Our Position on Safer Gambling
Gambling is a form of paid entertainment. It is not an income stream, a method of recovering earlier losses, or a reasonable response to financial pressure, loneliness or stress. Every product we describe is constructed with a mathematical advantage in favour of the house, and over a sufficient number of rounds that advantage will assert itself regardless of stake size, betting pattern or perceived hot streak.
We encourage readers to approach the activity with the same discipline they would apply to any discretionary expense: set a deposit ceiling before opening a lobby rather than after a losing session, treat the amount committed as already spent, keep session lengths short enough to remain deliberate, and never fund play with borrowed money or funds earmarked for household obligations.
Recognised warning signs deserve attention rather than rationalisation. Concealing the extent of play from family, chasing losses with progressively larger stakes, borrowing to continue, neglecting work or study commitments, and experiencing irritability when unable to play are all indications that the activity has moved beyond entertainment.
Confidential help is available in this country without cost and without judgement. The Gambling Helpline New Zealand provides free telephone, text and online counselling for anyone affected by their own gambling or by that of a family member, including support in te reo Māori and Pasifika languages. We publish that reference not as a formality but because early contact materially improves outcomes.
Most reputable operators also provide practical control tools within their account settings, including deposit and loss limits, reality checks, cooling-off intervals and permanent self-exclusion. Where such tools exist we identify them in our reviews, and we encourage readers to activate them at the point of registration rather than waiting until difficulties arise.
Absence of Warranties and the Boundaries of Our Responsibility
The platform and its contents are supplied on an “as is” and “as available” footing. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all representations, conditions and warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied assurance as to accuracy, completeness, currency, merchantable quality, fitness for a particular purpose or uninterrupted availability of the service.
Nothing in this document purports to limit or exclude rights conferred on consumers by the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 or the Fair Trading Act 1986 where those statutes apply and cannot lawfully be contracted out of. Where you access our platform for the purposes of a business, you agree that the Consumer Guarantees Act does not apply and that the exclusions set out in this section operate in full.
Subject to the preceding paragraph, we accept no liability for any loss, damage or expense of any description arising from your use of, or inability to use, this platform. That exclusion extends to gambling losses incurred with any operator featured here, to bonus terms that prove less favourable than anticipated, to declined withdrawals, to account closures, and to any indirect or consequential loss including lost profits, lost opportunity or reputational harm.
Where liability cannot be excluded altogether, our aggregate liability to you in respect of all claims connected with this platform is limited to one hundred New Zealand dollars (NZ$100), which the parties agree represents a fair allocation of risk given that our content is supplied to readers at no charge.
Handling of Personal Information Under the Privacy Act 2020
We collect only such personal information as is reasonably necessary to operate an editorial website: technical data captured by analytics, an email address where a reader elects to subscribe, and the contents of any message sent to our team. That collection, storage, use and disclosure is carried out in accordance with the thirteen information privacy principles established by the Privacy Act 2020.
Affiliate tracking is generally performed through cookies and similar identifiers placed by our commercial partners. Those identifiers record that a visit originated from our platform; they do not transmit your name, contact details or payment information to us, and we receive no access to the account you may subsequently open with an operator. Browser settings may be used to restrict such identifiers, though certain site features may then function imperfectly.
Your entitlements as an individual — including the right to request confirmation of what we hold, to obtain access to it, to seek correction of anything inaccurate, and to complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner — are described more fully in our Privacy Policy, which forms an integral part of this agreement and should be read together with it.
Applicable Statutes, Jurisdiction and Resolving Disagreements
This agreement, and any non-contractual obligation connected with it, is governed by and interpreted according to the laws of New Zealand. The New Zealand courts have exclusive jurisdiction over any proceeding arising out of or relating to your use of the platform, save that we retain the right to seek injunctive relief in any competent forum where necessary to protect our intellectual property.
Gambling activity within this country is regulated by the Department of Internal Affairs, which supervises licensed venues, oversees the sector’s compliance obligations and publishes guidance on the lawful conduct of gambling. Readers seeking authoritative regulatory information may consult the Department of Internal Affairs directly; we have no regulatory function ourselves and do not purport to speak for any government agency.
Before commencing formal proceedings, we ask that you raise your concern with us in writing so that a negotiated resolution can be explored in good faith. Most matters — factual corrections, disputed ratings, requests for clarification of a bonus summary — are settled at this stage. Where a claim falls within the applicable monetary threshold, the Disputes Tribunal offers an accessible alternative to the District Court.
Amendments, Severability and Continuing Effect
We may revise these provisions from time to time to reflect changes in the law, in our commercial arrangements, or in the structure of the platform itself. The revised text takes effect upon publication on this page, and the date shown at the foot of the document indicates when the current version was issued. No individual notification is dispatched to readers, so a periodic review is advisable.
If any clause is found by a competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable, that clause is to be severed to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions continue in full force. A failure or delay on our part in enforcing any entitlement does not operate as a waiver of that entitlement or of any other.
These provisions, together with the privacy documentation referred to above and any page-specific notice, constitute the entire understanding between you and us concerning the platform, and supersede all prior statements or representations on the subject. You may not assign your rights under this agreement; we may assign or transfer ours in connection with a restructure or transfer of the publication.
Clauses which by their nature are intended to survive termination — including those dealing with intellectual property, exclusions of liability, governing law and dispute resolution — remain effective after you cease using the platform, however that cessation occurs.
Concluding Provisions and Written Correspondence
Correspondence concerning this agreement should be addressed to our editorial and compliance desk at [email protected], or submitted through the enquiry form maintained at our contact page. We aim to acknowledge substantive enquiries within five working days, though matters requiring verification with a third-party operator may reasonably take longer to resolve.
Notices sent by electronic means are treated as delivered on the working day following transmission, provided no delivery failure notification is received. When writing about a factual correction, a copyright concern, a privacy request or a commercial proposal, please identify the specific page in question and, where relevant, the date on which you viewed it, as this materially accelerates our review.
Readers who wish to see how these provisions apply in practice are welcome to return to the Jackpot City Casino reviews and gambling guides hub, where each ranking, bonus summary and payment comparison is published subject to the conditions recorded above. Your continued use of the platform confirms that you have read this document, understood the allocation of risk it describes, and accepted it in the terms set out.